... acquiring of knowledge. The poet and author Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates these natural truths in the outward appearance of a short story titled " My Kinsman, Major Molineux." Within the contents of this tale, a young lad named Robin sets off from his home in the country, on a journey to the little metropolis of a New England colony in search of his uncle Major Molineux. Robin ... knows that Robin has the potential to bring down his ego, and serves as a guide to help him along in his journey of self-discovery. Ironically, the setting of the tale, addresses this changing of old ideas f...

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... , sin, punishment and criticism of the past (Turner, 135-138). His deep infatuation with these themes is strongly evident in his most famous novel; The Scarlet Letter, which tells the tale of a young woman who commits adultery and is persecuted by her Puritan community for committing such an immoral sin. Additionally, as punishment for her adulterous crime she is forced to ... ...

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... , and resumed - of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would have imposed it,-resumed the symbol of which we have related so dark a tale. Never afterwards did it quit her bosom" "(Hawthorne 179). Hester remains in Boston because she feels empathy for the women of the society. She wants to help them adapt to ... ...

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... East and the West. This approach, deriving from a geographical crisis, becomes obvious in Stephen Crane's short stories, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky and The Blue Hotel. The first is a tale about a town Sheriff, Jack Potter, who is returning home from a trip where he has married. Jack returns shamefully with his new wife, because the town of Yellow Sky Knows Jack ... ...

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... of human experience in which he might have participated in, effectively extinguished. Exemplifying the "power of blackness" in Hawthorne's work was Young Goodman Brown. The main purpose of this narrative tale is to move the protagonist toward a personal and climatic vision of evil, leaving in it's a rubble and prevailing feeling of distrust. From Goodman Brown's dream vision or his spectral adventure ... ...

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... more famous than his short stories because of their repetition of collective themes, Hawthorne took advantage of the new subject and emerged from his earlier habit of the twice-told tale. This style rounded his talent and appropriately proved his skills in his rather thorough development of character, theme, setting, and plot. Hawthorne's risk of expanding his style to a more original ... ...

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... like the last place for any kind of beauty to be. But the rosebush grows contrasting with the depressing backdrop offering a sort of sweetness to this tragic story. In this tale, practically every main character is faced with a dreadful sin or evilness, but within the malice, there is also a pleasant side to each character's transgression, illustrating hypocrisy. Hester Prynne is introduced ... ...

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